Wow. CNN and the Environmental News Network are both reporting that a microbe has been recovered from the upper earth atmosphere which could have extraterrestrial origins. From CNN:
"The living bacteria, plucked from an altitude of 10 miles (16 km) or higher by a scientific balloon, could have been deposited in terrestrial airspace by a passing comet, according to the researchers. The microorganisms are unlike any known on Earth, but the astrobiologists 'want to keep the details under wraps until they are absolutely convinced that these are extraterrestrial,' said study participant Chandra Wickramasinghe, a noted scientist at Cardiff University in Wales."
I'm trusting genehack on this: "If they're right, it's huge, but I fear that eliminating all the other, more likely explanations is going to take quite a bit of work."
- jim 11-27-2000 2:09 pm




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